Posts Tagged "1 Peter"
She Is Beauty
March 04, 2024
Young lady, God knit you together in your mother’s womb. Your hair, your eyes, your skin, all of it in His perfect providence was to be you. You are beautiful. You are precious. You have purpose. You are His creation. Made in His image and redeemed in Christ to become the woman God has created you to be.
Our Society’s Focus
Our culture places an undue emphasis on external beauty. Because of this reality, the definition of beauty will always be in flux and continually changing. Pink hair today, green tomorrow because external beauty is constantly changing, leaving the person chasing the elusive trophy of cultural acceptance frustrated and empty.
The True Focus
God, as the master creator of all the ends of the heavens and earth, intimately created you and “knitted you together in your mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13). Your design and creation are not chance nor mistake; more remarkable still, you are, “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). Each of your features God planned. Your hair, your eyes, your skin, all of it was His desire for you. But God did not stop at your physical beauty.
God gave you purpose, potential, value, and worth beyond physical beauty. He created you, and each day that was made, He planned them before you were born and wrote each one of them in His book before there was yet one of them. Oh, dear daughter, you are not what this world says you are; you are a creation of the Almighty God who loves you, cares for you, and wants good for you. He who has had more thoughts of you and your life than grains of sand on the seashore will never leave or forsake you.
How Do You Unlock This Beauty?
Flip the script! Make the focus internal, not external.
Peter writes, “Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God” (1 Peter 3:3-4 NLT).
When the young lady focuses on the internal beauty of holiness, gentleness, and quiet spirit, she will shine. She will be beautiful because she possesses an unfading inner beauty that only grows more beautiful with time.
Precious daughter, don’t give in to the world’s desires for you. Do not settle for anything less than what God has given in His kind providence to you. This is your beauty; this is your life; pursue it with all you are and discover all that God has made it to be. Go after His will for you with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength; go after all that is true, good, and beautiful, and don’t think twice what this world might think.
Blessings